COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball raced past Eastern Kentucky, 13-4, Tuesday afternoon at Taylor Stadium in its 2017 home finale. The Tiger offense exploded for 11 runs over the first three innings and freshman Kameron Misner (Poplar Bluff, Mo.) hit his sixth homer of the year and matched a career-high with four RBI in the win. Mizzou moves to 32-21 on the year with the win. Sophomore LHP Michael Plassmeyer (St. Louis, Mo.) earned the win to go to 5-1 on the year.

Eastern Kentucky got hits from the first three batters in the order with just one leaving the infield and that led to a 1-0 lead for the Colonels in the first. Mizzou turned a big 6-4-3 double play behind Plassmeyer in the inning to escape with just the one run.

That lead was short-lived as Mizzou exploded for six runs in the bottom of the first, getting three hits, three walks and a hit batter. Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) had two RBI, Misner added another and Alex Samples (Bridgeport, Texas) had three RBIs on a two-out double to stretch the lead to 6-1.

Despite the wind and the wild first inning, Plassmeyer pitched around a win-aided leadoff double in the second inning. Misner then hit a three-run homer, his sixth of the year, to extend the lead 10-1 after a sacrifice fly by Nelson Mompierre (Miami, Fla.). Misner had four RBI through two innings.

Mizzou added one more run in the third and two more in the fourth before EKU scored two more in the fifth. Junior RHP Nolan Gromacki (Smithville, Mo.) inherited a bases-loaded jam with one out, but got a 6-4-3 double play to escape the jam in the fifth inning.

EKU got a solo homer in the sixth inning by Brenden Overton to cut the lead to 13-4. Reliever Cameron Dulle (St. Louis, Mo.) came in and did a nice a job, tossing 2.2 shutout innings without a hit. He allowed just one walk and struck out three in a solid outing.

Mizzou closes the regular season this Thursday-Saturday at Tennessee in a three-game series.

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